Featured Battle Recruitment: Do steel hearts bleed?

[Hysteria]

Professor Rodderly sat up straight, one hand grabbed against his hip and pushed to stretch out his aching back, the other scratching the hair line several centimetres higher than it had been when he was a younger man. His grey eyes sparkled, his face twisting into a triumphant smile.

“Brilliant...”

The words were almost a whisper, slipping from between slightly yellowed teeth. His body collapsed back into his chair, his eyes finally slipping from the table in front of him. The figurative apple in his eye was lying on the large worktable. A metal suit of armour at first appearance; to anyone with more technical knowledge from the steam powered city Ettermire, it would be recognised as something far more complex. Beneath the steel plates of metal were components of miraculous machinations. There were valves and gears, entwined on a metal skeleton. The whole thing was powered by a large steam engine set into the huge metal chest. From the shoulders several large pipes lifted into the air. Silent now, those pipes would bellow and splutter with life when it ran.

“Now.... it needs a test.” Muttered the professor. His words and actions didn't quite see eye to eye, and the professor promptly drifted off to sleep.

* * * *

*bang bang bang bang*

The professor lowered the hammer and looked at the note he had nailed on the notice board of the citadel. It proclaimed the amazing Steel Heart ready to be tested. Fighters were cordially invited to partake in a battle with the machine; housed by the Citadel. The monks would provide healing to the challengers, Rodderly would provide money. Any fighter that lasted at least three minutes with the machine would receive a cool two hundred gold. The professor wasn't giving the money away for nothing. He was planning on selling the machine afterwards. Using the battle as an showcase of the machine's possible buyers. Two hundred gold was a pittance compared to the money he was planning on pocketing.

Dearest Fighter,
you are cordially invited to take part in the battle of the year.
The Steal Heart is the newest whoozywatsits created by Professor Rodderly.
Any who lasts two minutes will receive 200 gold.
No wimps allowed

Featured battle recruitment!

Greetings seekers of glory. This is a featured battle, meaning that I will be playing the big bad, and you all will be trying to defeat the Steel Heart; a giant automaton made of steel, steam and bad dreams.

Structure:
This will be a 4v1 style thread. I'll post my reaction to and launching any additional attacks once a day. If someone doesn't post by that time then they get DQed (in as squishy way as I can think of). There will be a little bit of wiggle room, I don't want this to be as time bound as the Cell.

If someone's character is squished and/or DQed then the next person on the roster can jump in. Meaning even though we start with only four people, there might be many more jumping in. It also means the first four people who sign up get to fight, and everyone else may get to fight. So sign up! You can sign up with more than one profile, but you can't be RPing two profiles fighting at once. If your second one was on the list but the first is still going, the next person after you will be allowed in and you will be shifted back one place in the list. I retain the right to make executive decisions with the list. Its first come first serve, unless I think it needs to be mixed up.

I may bunny people to allow for the four v one format to work. If you shrug off an attack that should have hit you, I very well may pull out the squish squish gloves. Given the rewards are quite high, I believe this is fair.

Prizes:
Bonus EXP: The thread will be given a bonus of 1.5x exp (50%) to Rpers
Gold: If you survive at least four posts (including your intro) you get 200 gold
Winners: When (if?) Steel is taken down, then any active Characters will receive a share of 2,200 gold (550 each assuming four actives at the time of defeat, plus to 200 if you were in for four posts).

Who can join?!
At the moment only Level 7s or below may join.

Roster:
Ozoric
Tytanus
Lloyd
Tourneymant

Reserve:
The Mad Scientist
Elthas Belthasar
Where in the World?
Roht Mirage